Blog of Adam Daifallah -- author, journalist, law student. Lover of politics, writing, golf, curling, fitness, fashion, bacon and maple products -- not necessarily (but probably) in that order. Partisan of the Anglosphere. Contact me via email at adam@daifallah.com. This summer I am joined by Keir Wilmut and Omar Soliman.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Boy, you know election is in the offing when ...
...the Grits are going on a spending spree. In the last couple of days alone, they've announced better benefits for war veterans; more money for seasonal workers in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the form of fatter EI cheques; $100-million for AIDS (with an accompanying fawning endorsement from Bono) and now the latest scheme: they're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning up the Sydney tar ponds. The province of Nova Scotia has been clamouring for years to get this done. But the funding is conveniently announced days before the writ drop. And Paul Martin was going to do politics differently? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
